Elegance Quotes - Page 7

• I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

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• We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

  William Styron

  Acceptance, Goal, Becoming

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.519, Random House

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• Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

  Oleg Cassini

  Fashion, Mirrors, Style

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• I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!

  Robert Pattinson

  Being Yourself, Clothes, Looks

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• Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

  Richard Whately

  Girl, Character, Animal

  Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860). “A Selection of English Synonyms”, p.59

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• Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

  Ettore Bugatti

  Beautiful, Luxury, Expensive

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• Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Enlightenment, Pay, Glad

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.87, Penguin

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• Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance.  Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you?  Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next?  It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Independence, Suffering

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• Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion

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• Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Love, Appreciation, Lying

  "Finger Lickin’ Good" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2012.

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• I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

  Terry Teachout

  Book, Writing, Appreciate

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• I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Land, Comfort

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.174, BookBaby

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• Death is the only real elegance.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Real

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Ornaments, Worthy

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  Kareena Kapoor

  High Heels, Shoes, Add

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• Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Bars, Standards, Mathematician

  "Economic Analysis". Book by Kenneth E.boulding, revised 1948 edition, p. 236, 1941.

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• In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

  Ludovico Einaudi

  Mean, Definitions, Minimalist

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• Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Race, Judging, Employment

  Jeremy Bentham (1839). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.254

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• My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Color, Goal, Style

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• MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Design, Quality

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• The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Careers, Midfielders, Paul Scholes

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• To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

  Don Altman

  Life, Simplicity, Alive

  Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library

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• My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

  Rod Stewart

  My Love For You, Lace, Compliment

  Song: You're in My Heart

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• Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

  Petrarch

  Style, Language, Empty

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